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« Reply #50 on: April 26, 2012, 03:01:05 PM »
Quote from: IainB on April 26, 2012, 09:22:08 AM
By the way, the Syncdocs thing seems to be a bit of a scam. After it has synced 500 documents, it stops syncing and asks you to start paying a fee for the service. Since I don't value the service nor the data, I am hardly likely to be willing to pay for it - in fact, I think the bandwidth it uses in duplicating all those files is a waste of money.
For example, if I have a document in (say) 3 different Gdocs virtual folders (they are really labels), then SyncDocs faithfully creates 3 "real" folders on my local PC and puts one copy of the document into each of them. Sheesh.

Good to know, thanks.
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« Reply #51 on: April 26, 2012, 09:24:47 PM »
Quote from: IainB on April 26, 2012, 09:31:11 AM
Quote from: lanux128 on April 25, 2012, 07:41:59 PM
i actually like this feature. if you want to share a certain file in a folder, there is  no need to move that file into the 'Public' folder. thus orphaning it from the rest of the items in the original folder.
agreed, no big deal but it's an oft requested feature and quite convenient too.
That has been possible for ages with Gdocs. You just email people with a sharing link to the document, and the link can give anyone who has it read access, or write access, if you stipulate that.
At any time, you can revert the file to non-shared/"private" status, and thus remove further read/write access to the file at that point - thus rendering the sharing link obsolete.

i know about that feature, but Gdocs emphasises on documents but Dropbox is more on general storage. that is why i like it even more in Dropbox because my sharing is not limited to documents.. smiley
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« Reply #52 on: April 26, 2012, 09:29:40 PM »
Quote from: lanux128 on April 26, 2012, 09:24:47 PM
i know about that feature, but Gdocs emphasises on documents but Dropbox is more on general storage. that is why i like it even more in Dropbox because my sharing is not limited to documents.. smiley

Well now that Google Docs is (part of?) Google Drive, it's no longer emphasizing documents but general storage. Just like Dropbox.
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« Reply #53 on: April 27, 2012, 01:44:34 AM »
Quote from: Deozaan on April 26, 2012, 09:29:40 PM
Quote from: lanux128 on April 26, 2012, 09:24:47 PM
i know about that feature, but Gdocs emphasises on documents but Dropbox is more on general storage. that is why i like it even more in Dropbox because my sharing is not limited to documents.. smiley

Well now that Google Docs is (part of?) Google Drive, it's no longer emphasizing documents but general storage. Just like Dropbox.

lol, that fact is not lost on me.. cheesy
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